Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism – that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.
BORIS JOHNSONHitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
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This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope.
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Can I say anything good about Ken Livingstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can’t now remember what any of them were.
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I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.
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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
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I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
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I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.
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Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It’s not. On the contrary, it’s a massive opportunity for this country.
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Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.
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They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.
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I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
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